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It’s quite relaxed and pretty overall, but lacks emotional punch.
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Songs schizophrenically jump from A to X, from great to merely good, with scant warning or point.
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Unless you're a diehard retro-rock fan, you might want to leave this figurine in its natural environment: on the shelf.
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When the Deer Wore Blue feels like a safe record. As they play this record too close to the chest songs blend together, needless repetition pervades, and most of the record's latter half is undistinguished.
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This is no slavish style bite by Euro pretenders; it's a delectable refiguring.
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If you can get past all the arch pretension, When the Deer Wore Blue rewards you with plenty of tunes.
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You have to applaud these guys for jumping out on a limb with this strange trip of a record, but they probably shouldn’t take up the ‘60s-revival cause full time.
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When The Deer peaks with a three-song suite--'Drunkard's Dream,' 'Half Awake, Half Aware,' and 'Angel Of The Bayou'--that maintains a low-burn intensity, stacking up drumrolls and deep twang while moving with a natural force.
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Under The RadarMany of the songs are deceptively adorned; in other words, there seems to be a lot more instrumentation than is actually present in tracks. [Fall 2007, p.79]
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UncutScandinavian accents add to the sense of pop era unmoored from its time and place, and reconfigured into one coherent record with cool precision. [Feb 2008, p.78]
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It's more tripped-out and druggy, a looser version of the songwriting that gave Skeleton its immediate punch.
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Q MagazineAny promise it shows [early on], howeever, soon gives way to yet another album of baroque rock and Beach Boys harmonies that strives towards being some lost Brian Wilson opus. [Feb 2008, p.95]
User score distribution:
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JeffS.Oct 18, 2007
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ThomasJ.Oct 16, 2007